Positive Atheism Quotes - Page 7

• I do not believe there is such a thing as a God.

  George Holyoake

  Soccer, Believe, Atheism

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• If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.

  Frederic Farrar

  Miracle, Atheism, Untrustworthy

  Frederic William Farrar (1875). “The Witness of History to Christ: Five Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge : Being the Hulsean Lectures for the Year 1870”, p.25

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• The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

  Joseph Campbell

  War, Two, Forever

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• Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another.

  Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

  Atheism, Love One Another

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• They are looking in utter darkness for that which has no existence whatsoever.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Darkness, Atheism, Existence

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• The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

  Quentin Crisp

  Blessing, Atheism, Looks

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• Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heaven, Secret, Atheism

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.17, A&C Black

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• It's the noisiest thing I've ever experienced.

  Alfred Goodwin

  Atheism

  "Pledge of Allegiance Judges Facing Demonstrators at Courthouse". www.foxnews.com. July 17, 2002.

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• I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.

  Albert Camus

  Christian, Children, Struggle

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• Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Silence, Atheism, Argument

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Mistake, Men

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.217, Rowman Altamira

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• Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheism, Heritage, Christianity

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• Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be rejected... One sentence ... sums up the dark and deadly pages of Chistian history: "If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities."

  Herbert J. Muller

  Believe, Dark, Atheism

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• A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

  Jane Addams

  Wise, Believe, Men

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• The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Christian, Greed, Atheism

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• I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Atheism, Trends, Appreciative

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• Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

  Karen Armstrong

  Reality, Ideas, Mind

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• Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion that it could, in effect, be made illegal to imply ridicule of a religion or to lampoon religious figures.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Christian, Religious, Careers

  "Comic alarmed by religious jokes limit" by Rebecca Allison, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2001.

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• For telling a good and incisive religious joke, you should be praised. For telling a bad one, you should be ridiculed and reviled. The idea that you could be prosecuted for the telling of either is quite fantastic.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Religious, Ideas, Atheism

  "Tolerance or Death!" by Bruce Bawer, reason.com. November 30, 2005.

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• For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

  Annie Besant

  Christian, Evil, Leader

  Annie Besant (2012). “Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

  Margaret Atwood

  Atheism, Absence, Reverse

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Believe, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.

  Douglas Adams

  Eye, Light, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.732, Del Rey

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• The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

  Jane Addams

  Religious, Order, Atheism

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• One would suppose that the battle for religious liberty was won in the United States two hundred years ago. However, in the time since, and right now, powerful voices are always raised in favor of bigotry and thought control. It is useful, then, to have a compendium of the thoughts of great men and women of all faiths (and of none) on the subject, to convince us that we men and woman of freedom are not and never have been alone.

  Isaac Asimov

  Religious, Powerful, Men

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